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paperback. LA PI Philip Marlowe is offered a job that leaves a bad taste in the mouth: smearing a girl who's 'got her hooks into a rich man's pup'. Before too long Marlowe's up to his neck in corpses and cops and he's taken pity on the girl. There's nothing like making trouble of your business.. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241956304
- ISBN
- 9780241956304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.27
€ 12.99
€ 10.27
Hardcover. Unsettling, beautiful, laced with dark humour and tenderness, The Answer and Other Love Stories explores the inner lives of those who live as neighbours, pass each other in the street and work side by side. Num Pages: 261 pages. BIC Classification: FR; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 208 x 23. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908946928
- ISBN
- 9781908946928
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.39
€ 13.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. A dazzling, ambitious debut collection from a young talent, these critically acclaimed stories dip into the shadows and spotlights of life. From the pale waking hours to the darkling places, Clown's Shoes introduces a cast of lost characters trying to find their way, and asking whether everyone really does come salting home in the end? Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910409671
- ISBN
- 9781910409671
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.40
€ 12.40
Paperback. A collection of stories from the author of "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee". Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd England
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- V9781847673466
- ISBN
- 9781847673466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.73
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€ 10.73
Paperback. Editor(s): Hawthorne, Susan; Klein, Renate D. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press Australia
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781875559008
- ISBN
- 9781875559008
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.90
€ 19.99
€ 14.90
Paperback. If you want to understand America, forget Michael Moore, George W Bush or the Simpsons - get acquainted with Otis Lee Crenshaw, the sublime creation of Rich Hall, one of the funniest, smartest and most acute American wits alive' Stephen Fry Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349118192
- ISBN
- 9780349118192
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. The name on the covers was Bachman. But the imagination could only belong to one man: Stephen King. Num Pages: 992 pages. BIC Classification: FK; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 43. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781444723533
- ISBN
- 9781444723533
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.02
€ 15.99
€ 13.02
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Edition
- Shorter Eighth Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393937763
- ISBN
- 9780393937763
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 46.44
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€ 46.44
Paperback. Contains 62 stories that set mainly in Tacoma, Washington (where the author grew up) and in the flower-powered San Francisco of the late fifties and early sixties. Series: Canons. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main - Canons edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782113782
- ISBN
- 9781782113782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.69
€ 13.99
€ 11.69
Hardback. A collection of stories that features: "Memorial Day", "Memo and Oblivion" and "The Interview". In "Memorial Day", an aging man at a public swimming pool recalls a brief but momentous affair he had with a young British woman in London thirty years ago and the paradoxical role his recently deceased father played in it. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 168 x 25. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421402734
- ISBN
- 9781421402734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.72
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€ 31.72
Paperback. Together, the nine stories in Don't Think illuminate the astonishing fact of existence itself while justifying the Philadelphia Inquirer's assessment that Burgin is one of America's most distinctive storytellers. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421419718
- ISBN
- 9781421419718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.04
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Paperback. Top NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat and her partner, journalist Jameson Rook, pursue the elusive former CIA station chief who ordered the execution of her mother over a decade ago. But their quest for the old spy unearths an alarming terror plot that has already entered its countdown phase. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Titan Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781167724
- ISBN
- 9781781167724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.91
€ 11.99
€ 9.91
Paperback. Paired once again with top journalist Jameson Rook, NYPD Homicie Detective Nikki Heat arrives at her latest crime scene to find an unidentified body stuffed inside a suitcase. Nikki is in for a big shock when this new homicide connects to the unsolved murder of her own mother. Will Nikki Heat finally be able to solve the dark mystery? Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 31. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- Titan Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781166949
- ISBN
- 9781781166949
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.89
€ 11.99
€ 9.89
Paperback. From Tokyo to London, high-level bankers are being gruesomely murdered. The killer, Gregor Volkov, is Derrick Storm's old nemesis. Desperate to figure out who Volkov is working for, the CIA calls on the one man who can match Volkov's strength and cunning - Derrick Storm. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- Titan Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781167915
- ISBN
- 9781781167915
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.91
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Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 217 x 9. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Santa Fe Writer's Project United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781939650054
- ISBN
- 9781939650054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.21
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Paperback. An illicit visit to the Grand Canyon reveals a vastness even more profound; an exacting career woman celebrates Christmas with her adamantly post-nuclear family; a couple weekending in Maine try to recapture the ardour that has disappeared, both gradually and suddenly, from their lives; and more. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780747585282
- ISBN
- 9780747585282
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.08
€ 11.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West - and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. This is a story collection about ordinary women, men and children. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780747585251
- ISBN
- 9780747585251
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.38
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€ 10.38
Paperback. Ranges from the northern plains of Montana to the streets of Paris and the suburbs of Chicago. The tragedies that stalk the characters are unfolded with an indelible wit and clarity. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780747585275
- ISBN
- 9780747585275
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.87
€ 18.99
€ 13.87
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bradwell Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909914070
- ISBN
- 9781909914070
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.56
€ 7.56
Paperback. Crimes, drama, hard choices and the dark side of sunny California feature in this awardwinning short story collection from critically acclaimed author Richard Lange. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FH; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444790023
- ISBN
- 9781444790023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.23
€ 11.99
€ 10.23